Apple seems to be going out of its way to look for folks who are using the word POD in their trademarks or business. David Berlind has the poop on another such story with an interesting bit of info.
It's certainly news that Apple has registered the POD mark somewhere in Europe and has an application for it here in the US. Perhaps those registrations are in countries where there's no such word as "pod." For now however, Apple does not have a trademark on the word "pod" here in the US and this business of shaking down small businesspeople to keep them from using a word that's listed in the dictionary (peas, whales, etc.) is just shameful.
I couldn't agree more.
